The pup apparently ran headfirst into a cactus Tuesday and was stumbling around in pain when Jose Soto, a Pebblebrook Golf Course maintenance worker, and Assistant Superintendent Shawn Bordine came to the rescue.

Cactus spines pierced at least a quarter of an inch into the pup, its face entirely hidden by the prickly plant, a hand-sized cholla joint clinging to its tail.

“I was shocked to see this little one tumbling over and over and over, covered head to foot with these little chunks of cholla,” resident Gwen Maxwell said Wednesday. “On my goodness, it put me in shock it was so horrible to see.”

A gallery of Ms. Maxwell's photos accompany the story.

Painful viewing yes, but a testament to the surgery by Pebblebrook's finest.

Good story. Without nature's natural predators on and around golf courses then the lovely furry and cute animals (gophers, rabbits, moles, and all) will overrun the place. Sean above appears to be confusing ruthless feline animals with those of the hurt, injured, and helpless dog variety.

And I believe that the infamous SF Garter snake and Red legged frog appeared AFTER that freshwater lagoon was installed way back in the 30's. Those two creatures were never supposed to be there in the first place and the irony and hubris on the part of SF's green terrorist community is almost comical. They're anti-everything what makes us human. Too bad their parents didn't think the same and we'd have been saved alot of BS and be free to go out and play golf.

My initial comment was "Around here, 10 out of 10 ranchers volunteered to finish the job the cholla started."

After Rick and KFG responded I wrote "Some guys are puppy people. Some guys are lamb/fawn people."

An hour or two later Geoff deleted both of my posts.

I indicated I was done with this blog and indeed I'm done reading Geoff anywhere he publishes. I had hoped to leave it at that but Geoff has since characterized me as "wishing harm on animals", "objectionable" and "mildly disturbing". Since he made those comments after removing mine I am posting here now to set the record straight and lay out only the facts. My recreation of my posts is pretty much verbatim as I think others can/will confirm.

Hopefully this will stay up long enough for those who are interested, if any, to make up their own minds. I'm not going to editorialize at all and whether this post disappears or not I won't chime back in.

Ahhhh, Rick, you're going to enjoy Eagle Ridge. The town of Galena is nice too, went to a museum that had a very large magnificent painting of Grant & Lee, I think I found it in this link: http://galenahistorymuseum.org/war.html

Will never forget the description...Grant thought Lee was such a good looking man and he felt humbled by the thought of Lee surrending to him. I love art, but this museum was full of civil war memorabilia. If you get a chance it's just a block or so off the main street.